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James Coote
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Making indie games with Crystalline Green Ltd.

https://store.steampowered.com/developer/CrystallineGreen
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jamesacoote.bsky.social
Great to have you hosting #turnbasedthursday !

I'm working on Critias Empire: 4X-Strategy: Build your empire of Atlantis🌊🏛️ as angry Gods rain down disasters🌋

Currently adding more disasters: Just finished "Miasma" (toxic gas clouds)

More info & Wishlist 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/1949260?...
September 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
jamesacoote.bsky.social
Added a warning screen and option to disable flashing light vfx in Critias Empire - Since Zeus throwing down righteous bolts of lightning is now a thing in the game 👿⚡

#gamedev #gaming
Picture of a video game UI: Background is a romantic-era oil on canvas painting of ancient greko-roman buildings. Foreground is a UI box decorated with beige doric columns. A triangular warning sign is at the top of the box, with a text description below warning of the effects of flashing lights on those with photosensitive epilepsy and other similar conditions and an option to disable flashing lights.
September 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
jamesacoote.bsky.social
Thanks for taking up the mantle of #Turnbasedthursday host!

Critias Empire: 4X Strategy: Build your empire of Atlantis🌊🏛️ as angry Gods rain down disasters🌋

I finally implemented the Fire disaster (though still needs tidying up and testing) ⚡🔥

Wishlist 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/1949260?...
September 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
jamesacoote.bsky.social
Thanks for hosting #turnbasedthursday!

Critias Empire: 4X strategy - Build your empire of Atlantis🌊🏛️ as angry Gods rain down disasters🌋

Just implemented the new "Festivals" feature & working on a new disaster for the next demo update 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/1949260?... #4xfest #pcgaming
Partial screenshot of a strategy style video game UI in a greko-roman style decorated with doric columns. Icons to represent in-game resources, such as a green apple for food and a grey stone block for stone, with their respective amounts next to each resource, are displayed along the top of the screen. Below and to the right is a picture of young women dressed in white togas and with flower garlands on their heads parading through an ancient greek city in an oil on canvas painted style. To the right is a list of boxes. Each box contains information on a different in-game festival that the player can choose. This includes a small square picture again in an oil on canvas classical painted style, as well as the name of the festival, a short description, various in-game bonus and cost stats related to each festival, a slider and a start button. The top festival is called Night of the Bull and features a bull parading through a greko-roman city at night. The second is called Farmers Feast and has a picture of a long white table covered in fresh food on platters and drink bottles of various sizes. Both festivals the start buttons are darkened to indicate they are disabled. Steam 4X Fest written in orange on a black diamond patterned background. Below an inset image for the video game Critias Empire, of an ancient greek god looking down on a colonnade fronted temple with an erupting volcano in the background. At the bottom, the words "Demo Out Now" Rectangular cropped oil on canvas painting of four young women wearing white togas with flower garlands in their hair holding wicker baskets of flower petals. The text "Festivals Devlog" is written over the top of the image with a beige frame at the top and bottom Screenshot of the video game Critias Empire, showing the in-game map of a small forested island with mountains in an aquamarine sea. In the bottom left is the coast of a larger landmass, with a hexagon icon of houses marked with the label "Troy". Other hexagon icons appear along the coast nearby with ship and apple symbols respectively. There are fish symbols in the sea. Surrounding the scene is a video game UI decorated with beige greko-roman columns. To the top are a series of resource icons with numbers next to them. To the left is a UI showing further resource icons as well as an oil on canvas painted picture of a ship sailing in the sea near an ancient greek temple. The UI has the words "recommended" as well as "harbour", "build costs" and "collects" next to various icons and numbers. A large "build" button appears at the bottom of the UI
August 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
jamesacoote.bsky.social
Critias Empire is in Steam 4X Fest!

Fan of strategy games? Then check out the demo👇
store.steampowered.com/app/1949260?... #pcgaming #strategy
Steam 4X Fest written in orange on a black diamond patterned background. Below an inset image for the video game Critias Empire, of an ancient greek god looking down on a colonnade fronted temple with an erupting volcano in the background. At the bottom, the words "Demo Out Now"
August 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
jamesacoote.bsky.social
Thanks for hosting #turnbasedthursday!

Critias Empire: 4X Turn-Based Strategy:

Focus on creating a civilization without war/conflict.

Build your kingdom of Atlantis🌊🏛️ as angry Gods rain down map-altering disasters🌋

Wishlist & Demo 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/1949260?... #strategy #pcgaming
June 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
jamesacoote.bsky.social
I made a tech tree for my game! ...uh...
#gamedev
Delightfully wonky looking strategy game tech tree
March 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
jamesacoote.bsky.social
Thanks for hosting #turnbasedthursday!

Critias Empire: Turn-based Strategy: Build your kingdom of Atlantis 🌊🏛️ while surviving disasters🌋rained down by the Olympian Gods

store.steampowered.com/app/1949260?...
February 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM